Panic reigns supreme in the southern Egyptian province of Aswan, following the death of several people of gastrointestinal disease-related complications, including circulatory and heart arrests. The dead, five so far, were among hundreds of locals who were admitted to four hospitals in the past few days, after suffering gastrointestinal problems, including diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea. Residents of the southern province, around 850 kilometres south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and a few kilometres away from the Egyptian border with Sudan, are deeply alarmed. “We are afraid because there is …